![]() After all, if the grim predictions of climate change experts prove to be true, the Earth may not be fit for human habitation in the next century and beyond. ![]() Yet today it's not toxic waste or nuclear waste that gets the biggest billing-it's global warming. How do you safely store nuclear waste for one million years? Not that nuclear power hasn't been a significant concern-consider the notoriously contaminated Hanford Site and the thirty-year battle to site a nuclear waste facility at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Think of the Times Beach, Missouri, disaster in 1983. ![]() More than nuclear, it was toxics that soon became the central environmental issue, with hundreds of hazardous waste sites dotting the country. Environmental issues entered the public discourse in a conspicuous way back in the 1970s with the media blitz on the dioxin contamination at Love Canal in 1978 and the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in 1979. ![]()
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